Technologies

Essentials of a Big Data Architecture

Discusses the essentials of a Big Data architecture and how technologies are being used to influence different decisions. We will also discuss the skills and processes required to make a successful implementation work. Other topics:

What kinds of technologies make up today’s “Big Data” architecture?
What role do the components play in the analytics data pipeline?
How do you decide which technology right for your use case?

System Architecture & Capacity Planning Ideas for Big Data in the EnterpriseFoundational capacity management begins with a good understanding of capacity “demand” and how that demand translates into compute resources (supply). A very basic principle, but a huge challenge — especially in today’s shared and service-based provisioning models. The ability of organizations to optimize resource usage and appropriately size for demand is increasingly a problem.